As a stepmom I think this is one of my new favorites just because of your commentary. When I got married everyone kept telling me, "Love the kids like they're your own" and lots of other well intentioned advice that is of course, easier to give than it is to follow. Especially when you're hearing the refrain of "You're not my mother!" for the 50th time. :-DToo bad they just spelled Stetson's name wrong. Lots of times your commentary far outshines the wreck itself and I think this is one of those times.

Whew! What an appreciated relief and recovery day after yesterday's post. Having a blended family of my own, the step insignia on anything is simply unnecessary and a little obvious in its quarantining - but ESPECIALLY on a cake!

I just have to add that I love and look forward to Cake Wreck Jen's consistenly laugh-out-loud-funny photos and commentary, but I also get a huge kick out of all the reader comments! Gosh, there sure are a lot of witty cyber folk out there! Wreck on wit you bad selves, y'all.

I was concerned about you Jen. I came on the site this morning and there was no posting. Thank God when I checked back a half hour later your Thursday posting was up and running. I was about to send out an APB. What would we all do with out you to start our mornings with a chuckle :-D

People at work are going to start to think I'm crazy. Every morning around 9 or 10 I am snickering in my cube. I giggled at the initial thought, but then I burst out laughing when I read that is was supposed to say!

Just got my "Mothering" magazine today. Wouldn't you know they had a cake of breasts for breastfeeding awareness. I need to get a picture, but it was basically a set of white breasts with fleshy nipples and a wierd little baby sitting in the middle. Crazy but perfect for this site!

I'm totally surprised you didn't post the Obama cupcake portrait this morning that's been all over the news! (But I guess it's not really a wreck, 'cause it doesn't look that bad. I mean, if you have no problem with a president-elect being immortalized in frosting. Or it being a cupcake cake. Because you love cupcake cakes, right?!)

As a Brit, it's can often be a sort of amusement to hear the names that people name their children in the US. So when I saw this cake and read that it was a spelling error on the name rather than a cold step-parent rubbing their step-kid's nose into their own status, my first thought was Sarah Palin. I mean, come on! The names of her kids! It's almost like they popped out and were named after the first thing that she clapped eyes on at that very moment.

(and for added 'fnar fnar' value, as well as being a city in the UK, Bristol (one of Palin's daughters name) is also used as slang for . . . um . . . a nice pair of breasts. As in "cor, get a look at those bristols!". I must stress this isn't in common parlance . . . .

I have to admit, I first thought that this cake was just one of those stock cakes, you know, the ones that already have a generic phrase like happy birthday, and the grocery store bakeries have now paired up with the greeting card industry to make state-the-obvious cakes for people's relatives. I like to think the decorator saw the order and thought, "perfect! all I have to do is cram 2006 onto that stepson stock cake! and my manager thought I was wasting icing- this'll show him!"

Ha ha, I must be weird, I actually hate it when my stepfather calls me his "daughter". But that probably has to do with the fact that he married my mom when I was a senior in HS. I'd done (most) of my growing up by then. (And he's still a cool guy, just that one thing drives me up the wall.)

This cake really resonates with me, especially if we're keeping the "fake" story.

When I was growing up, I had an evil stepmother. For one of my birthdays, she got me three bags of M&Ms (the regular, individual size ones) and a USED CROSS STITCH KIT that she had purchased at a garage sale.

"Stetson" is a family name around here...."Stetson University" is named for the man who invented the Stetson hat and then he endowed the university. So the name came before the hat, folks. Still, this is a really scarey cake, stepson or stetson.My word verification is proarksa....how bizarre. Love your blog and love the comments!blogless Mary Lou

Oh. Mah. Goodness...I was just catching up here on CakeWrecks (yeah, it HAS been almost 2 months since I've read....BAD cakewrecks fan!) Anyways, I can't believe my brother's cake made it into the hallowed galleries of cake-wreckiness!! Just in case y'all were wondering, no, Stetson's NOT a stepson. And, no, this wasn't a dial-a-wreck, either. My mom oredred the cake in person at the bakery, and she did actually spell out my brother's name, very carefully and slowly, since it's an unusual name. Still, the decorator obviously had no clue. "Stetson? What's that? I ain't never heard of it, I think they must've meant STEPSON. Yeah, that's it...what a lovely message for any child!" The only thing that could've made it better would have been quotes around the word "Stepson". Haha! :P Thank you, Jen!

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